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Creating a portrait-only book

Creating a portrait-only book - iBooks Author Tutorial

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Creating a portrait-only book

- With iBooks Author, we can create books that only display in a portrait orientation. These templates are similar to the landscape templates that we've already seen. However, there are a few key differences, so let's have a look at them now. The portrait layouts are located here in the Template Chooser. To select a layout, double-click on the icon for the template that you want to preview, such as the Photo Book layout. When the template opens up, you'll notice that everything looks fairly similar to the landscape book layouts that we've been working with. However, when we look up here in the toolbar, notice that we no longer have the ability to switch between the pagination and scroll views. Instead, we're now locked into a new portrait-only pagination view, which resembles a traditional book and is how your reader will likely be holding their device when reading your book. There is no scroll view available to us for our readers in a portrait book. All the common elements that we've…

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